The discovery comes about a month after an $850 million plan was announced to battle the parasitic insect in Texas.

Ever wonder what the world looks like to a fly? Discover how insect vision works, why swatting them is so hard, and how this knowledge helps fight disease.

Researchers found that fruit fly sperm push against one another and align in orderly bundles, preventing knots that could block reproduction.

Jakob von Uexküll was a Baltic German biologist ahead of his time, intrigued by the idea that animals inhabit unique ...

Today in Austin, Texas, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hosted a press conference announcing new strategies to stop the spread New World screwworm. “We will ...

In a small persimmon orchard in northern Greece, scientists carefully open paper bags to release thousands of flies, in an ...

Briceño, R. Daniel and Eberhard, William G. 2000. "Male Wing Positions During Courtship by Mediterranean Fruit Flies (Ceratitis Capitata) (Diptera: Tephritidae)." Journal of the Kansas Entomological ...

A fly is going about its day, buzzing here, buzzing there—but then, it starts behaving weirdly. Its movements become sluggish; its abdomen swells. Its body sprouts white fuzz. Around sunset, there’s a ...

Meet the Messor ibericus harvester ant, the only animal on record that clones another animal to carry out its lifecycle, creating two separate species of ants to survive.

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